I have used a couple of Wifi based hardware controllers for LED of any kind in the past. Now I am looking for a Zigbee LED controller that just works with my ZHA Home Assistant setup – and I found a great solution. The different types of LEDs and LED Read more…
ZFS is a great filesystem for your server. Until something goes wrong. I wrote a small ZFS alert script that sends me a popup notification if my ZFS pool ever goes offline. The ZFS filesystem ZFS is a very robust and versatile filesytem that includes many features like snapshots, RAID Read more…
Let’s encrypt, the biggest free provider of TLS certificates recently issued a warning to renew als TLS based certificates. Here is how to force a certificate renewal if you are using Traefik as a reverse proxy. Traefik and let’s encrypt I already wrote about my home server setup using Traefik Read more…
Waiting times, prices or dates – any information that is freely available on the web can be collected by you with a process called scraping. With Home Assistant and Grafana I built a simple system to find out at what times of the week my gym has the fewest visitors Read more…
Here is how I integrated my Prusa Mini with Octoprint and Home Assistant. While 3D printers are a really great tool for makers in general they get even better when combining them with a smart home setup. With the free Octoprint software it is easy to make your 3D printer Read more…
My Roborock S50 robot vacuum has maybe been my best smart home purchase so far but recently an error 2 message stopped it from working properly. Here is how to fix the error 2 and how to clean the underside of the robot. Error 2 – bumper stuck The S50 Read more…
If you have not heard about the Log4j2 issues then it is time to act! Secure your selfhosted service right now or risk loosing all your data. Here is what you can do. The issue with Log4j2 Log4j2 is a logging library that is widely popular in the Java world Read more…
I needed a way to store some towels in my bathroom in a out-of-the-way location. I built a nice premium looking towel rack – a shelf out of bamboo and Plexiglas. Here is how to do it. The idea & the materials for the towel rack The whole project started Read more…
The digital, paperless future is coming closer and closer. When I was looking to go digital I ran into one major problem: automatic upload to Nextcloud. The automatic upload from your scanner makes digital copies of your documents available everywhere – but only to you! It turns out that his Read more…
Unifi hardware is great for an enthusiast network but can get quite expensive. Fortunately there is a pretty cheap way of extending a Unifi network. The small flex mini switch gives you most of the advantages of the Unifi platform for a small price tag. It also comes in a Read more…